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Granted, it's all in .ram format... still a worthwhile way to waste 20 minutes.
So I've listened to a baker's dozen of songs on Pandora's new "Genre Station" for "New Orleans/Classic Jazz". They seem to have done a pretty slick job. About every other song is identified as having specifically "a swing-dancin' style", and most of the rest have "swing influences", "swing elements", or "a driving swing feel".
The station labelled "Big Band/Swing" has tended to be slower stuff, but I haven't listened to it as much.
Got a random facebook message today. I don't particularly recognize the sender, but we seem to have 5 friends in common... anyhow, he seems to have addressed his inquiry to the club at large, and so I present it for your review:
Shawn Barrowes:as a part of the Swing Kids, i thought you'd be interested to hear a new swing song. It's a song I wrote and I'd like to know what you and your club thinks of it. It's on my page, called, "Hop, Skip and a Jump". It's big band swing, so take a listen when you get a chance.
For your convenience, the song in question is available here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2s99uir7ofd
So I told him I'd pass it along, and gave him the URL of this thread; Presumably he will follow my link and read whatever comments we make.
It's pretty good. Definitely a neo-swinng-esque feel to the song. However, as I listen to it, the neo-swing-ess isn't especially overpowering, so it's not annoying or anything like that. Just seems like a pretty good, upbeat, modern swing song. IMO it's a great job for writing a completely new song (not just covering or modifying an old standard), especially if the OP doesn't originally have a heavy jazz music background or swing dance background (I don't know the background of the OP; just saying it's good, and if he is coming from a primarily non-swing/non-jazz background it's really good).
I agree. Definitely neo-swing. But despite that, pretty good.
Foehg:http://www.engine-studios.com/engine/VPP.html
Granted, it's all in .ram format... still a worthwhile way to waste 20 minutes.
If you don't mind .ram format, check out www.redhotjazz.com I've spent many hours on that site trying to soak in the history.
Oh, look! It's music!
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